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12/2/2012 11:28PM

North Korea Takes Another Rocket Shot

North Korea is planning another satellite launch sometime this month. The WSJ's Alastair Gale talks about whether Pyongyang has the capability to launch a long-range rocket after a string of failures, most recently in April.

This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.

I ... I expected to make and not the account to launch a satellite this month joining me now Alastair Gale dear soul Bureau Chief ... Alastair out of the last unsuccessful onto as of last April any indication and and whether or not North Korea has the capabilities to launch a satellite that ... scene ... with us the question on what they say is that survey to ... examine what went wrong in the fight over a pool ... of orange ... and they still come from this time around but right now this would be ... of a fifth time that they've tried to launch ... satellites ... I'm they've been successful in any of the of the previous two tenths ... of the fact that to try again so soon offered a portal which ... raises questions about whether they really have to work out what went wrong ... of course the technology that um is over the state of the oft ... um they don't have access to ... hear the same kind of um ... most of the that you would in the West articles ... of most director for anyone is a difficult job as ... it ... was the South Koreans will tell you because they haven't been out to be ... successful in Mosul Iraq and all of ... us up line anytime ... ok and ... and and the fact that South Korea is about to hold ... its presidential election on December nineteen could the timing of this lines have to do ... with our what's going on in Seoul ... show us the speculation here the side and North Korea has a track record of ... trying to influence of the elections here in the South ... we have a pensive presidential poll here on the nineteenth of this month ... so do you have been the main pot use ... of a voice said that this looks like another attempt by the North to influence but it was ... when there are other things going on this month it's the anniversary of the death of ... Kenneth Brill ... of the former ruler of North Korea Sohu ... another way of looking at this is that some part of these celebrations like ... of the one-year anniversary ... since his demise ... wheels an election going on in Japan so it ... hit a very Sears about why the North Koreans is doing it now ... of you the truth is that no one retires ... at an obviously an attempt at like this will make a lot of people in the international community at that ... from Seoul as we just talked about back to Washington to take it for that matter ... what the reaction been and in any one I had all trying to dissuade that Pyongyang from doing ... will the new to the U S with a beautiful reaction has been that this is about idea ... I stayed on in the U S this up in a statement ... saying that so there ... will move the North Koreans disrupt labs ... um you know it's it's a message here and so it's the same message and stir ... China Mr said that a ... unit of appeal for calm as they tend to do these kind of situations ... so the Univ be the general international messages of this is seen as not so much is a somewhat long but ... another ten muddle through to test its missile technology ... which will be in violation of UN sanctions so broadly the message is don't do it ... that is the recent rounds of Uno Koreans will ... pay attention about ... an hour after they made quite a public display of the last lines inviting a lot of foreign journalists in ... to witness a lion Shack by ... any indication as to whether or not they will do so again ... will it cost me to the sum of ... Las launch um ... you go so well so that may be thinking twice about ... having journalists on the ground ... aam ... but we don't know yet Stubbington is no indication that they will let the ... service when the seasons the controversial when people want to go to that ... of the fact was that the last option of the people that were ... in the country were somewhat lost in it that the that the rule could actually going up and ... explode additional go take all ... the size of the story of a country that some of the festive is cool so it should ... merit being there in the country ... um but that would have to wait and see whether they can ... budget estimates on ... it and it is also admitting mistakes can also make meters and nervous as well thanks Fran much talent ... and training us from Seoul for more on that star a pink added Avista dot